Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Participants in Ginger Jacobson’s hip-hop study were most likely to discuss causes of systemic racism instead of its consequences.
2. In their discussion of hip-hop videos, female participants in Ginger Jacobson’s study use code words that, on the surface, seem to refer to race but that actually signify class.
3. The White racial frame is a phenomenon often spread by the media where racial stereotypes function to maintain a positive orientation to whiteness and a negative orientation to other racial groups.
4. In her study of female users of hip-hop, Ginger Jacobson finds that the women use the word “ghetto” to pretend that they are part of Black culture.
5. Ginger Jacobson’s study of female hip-hop users fails to support the theory of intersectionality because it reveals that race is the only category that emerges as salient to racial formation theory.


1. False
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False

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